User talk:Josiah Rowe/Archive 12
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This archive covers discussion from November 2007 to February 2008, a period when I was not particularly active on Wikipedia.
Outer Limits episode PRODded
From Within (via WP:PROD) I thought you might be interested. - Fayenatic (talk) 20:37, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Dr Who
I noticed you were keen on Dr Who and recently commented on my Dee Robson article. Its true that this page does need improvement, currently Im researching some information with mum which will be in the next version of that article. Meanwhile, try not to worry. Thank you very much for your input!
AUTUMN PALMER
Invitation
Hello there
I see you are interested in the Life On Mars Television Series, as I am.
At the moment I have A Life On Mars Wikiproject currently up for approval by the Wikiproject Approval Council. As you are interested in Life On Mars I was wondering if you would be interested in adding your name and joining. If you are interested you can find it on Wikipedia: WikiProject Council/Proposals its right at the very bottom you cant miss it as its titled ‘Wikipedia: Wikiproject Life on Mars (Television Series)’. And after your name is added to Wikiproject propsals please add it to the main page Wikipedia:Wikiproject Life On Mars
If you are interested by all means feel free to join
Regards
Police,Mad,Jack —Preceding comment was added at 22:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR
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I am leaving you this message because recent events have given me concern. When Aaron Brenneman and I, and others, first developed this category well over a year ago, we visualized it as a simple idea. A low hassle, low bureaucracy process. We also visualized it as a process that people would come to trust, in fact as a way of increasing trust in those admins who chose to subscribe to the notion of recall. The very informal approach to who is qualified to recall, what happens during it, and the process in general were all part of that approach. But recent events have suggested that this low structure approach may not be entirely effective. More than one of the recent recalls we have seen have been marred by controversy around what was going to happen, and when. Worse, they were marred by some folk having the perception, rightly or wrongly, that the admin being recalled was trying to change the rules, avoid the process, or in other ways somehow go back on their word. This is bad. It's bad for you the admin, bad for the trust in the process, and bad for the community as a whole. I think a way to address this issue is to increase the predictability of the process in advance. I have tried to do that for myself. In my User:Lar/Accountability page, I have given pretty concrete definitions of the criteria for recall, and of the choices I can make, and of the process for the petition, and of the process for other choices I might make (the modified RfC or the RfAr). I think it would be very helpful if other admins who have voluntarily made themselves subject to recall went to similar detail. It is not necessary to adopt the exact same conditions, steps, criteria, etc. It's just helpful to have SOME. Those are mine, fashion yours as you see fit, I would not be so presumptuous as to say mine are right for you. In fact I urge you not to just adopt mine, as I do change them from time to time without notice, but instead develop your own. You are very welcome to start with mine if you so wish, though. But do something. If you have not already, I urge you to make your process more concrete, now, while there is no pressure and you can think clearly about what you want. Do it now rather than later, during a recall when folk may not react well to perceived changes in process or commitment. Further, I suggest that after you document your process, that you give a reference to it for the benefit of other admins who may want to see what others have done. List it in this table as a resource for the benefit of all. If you use someone else's by reference rather than copy, I suggest you might want to do as Cacharoth did, and give a link to a specific version. Do you have to do these things? Not at all. These are suggestions from me, and me alone, and are entirely up to you to embrace or ignore. I just think that doing this now, thinking now, documenting now, will save you trouble later, if you should for whatever reason happen to be recalled. I apologise if this message seems impersonal, but with over 130 members in the category, leaving a personal message for each of you might not have been feasible, and I feel this is important enough to violate social norms a bit. I hope that's OK. Thanks for your time and consideration, and best wishes. Larry Pieniazek NOTE: You are receiving this message because you are listed in the Wikipedia administrators open to recall category. This is a voluntary category, and you should not be in it if you do not want to be. If you did not list yourself, you may want to review the change records to determine who added you, and ask them why they added you. |
...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "H"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "I"s, "J"s, and "K"s! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 20:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Administration Stuff
Dear Josiah:
I'm trying to figure out what's going on with the Joe Raposo page on Wikipedia. People delete my additions, which are as valid (sometimes much more so) as theirs, and delete whole blocks of content (such as credits and lectures).
Also deleted are lines stating that the Joe Raposo Music Group can be reached through me at my e-mail address. Why? I read one editor's comment that it's like an ad (though it's not). If people can visit the page and get a bunch of gobbledygook that may or may not be true--most of the anecdotal and personal stuff is culled from one memoir--why can't they be informed about where to find me and correct information about his music and catalogue?
Much of the commentary on the page is ridiculous, amateur music crit stuff that has nothing to do with actual influences on my father's career and creativity. In a bunch of cases, it's just wrong.
Why are people so interested in editing this page over and over again?
Thanks for any suggestions you might have,
Best,
Nick Raposo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.231.31.112 (talk) 21:06, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- Hello, Nick. If you want to make sure that information stays in a wikipedia article, it must be referenced with verifiable, reliable, independent sources, cited in bibliographic detail. See WP:V and WP:RS. Once you add a good citation to your information, it will be much more likely that other editors will recognize that it is legitimate. Editors who are related to a subject that they are editing are considered to have a conflict of interest, so there edits are viewed with great suspicion. Hope that helps. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:43, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
[[Image:KrausCCA.jpg]]
Should this image be up for deletion? Hasn't it has been properly donated to the public domain by the uploader? Happy New Year! -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:35, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Remember Chris Cox from Fredericksburg?
Hey there Josiah! Found you on here and thought I'd say hi! Here's all my pertinent outside info:
Please check out my new animated movie review show online at www.spill.com.
As my character Cyrus I can be found at http://my.spill.com/profile/cyrus001
My personal blog that I probably use the most for "real me" stuff (and just posting of silly pictures) is at http://chris2342.livejournal.com/
I also can be found at www.myspace.com/christophercox, or alternately at www.myspace.com/clawrencec
You may chat with me at ccox2342 on AIM —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris2342 (talk • contribs) 21:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
ITN reform
Since you're busy, I don't know if this is much use. But... You commented on monotonehell's previous proposal for ITN reform. Given recent events which have highlighted the continual problems with ITN, I've taken it, made a few modifications and I'm trying to bring it back. It's currently at User:Nil Einne/ITN reform and any comments or thoughts are appreciated. Also, although I put this on a subpage of my user page, I don't consider this my proposal and would appreciate any help in pushing this along particularly given it's a wide ranging proposal that is likely to take a very long time to get anywhere. I primarily put it there so I could work on it without creating confusion. Also, I thought it might be helpful to avoid a mad rush of people commenting so I'm just informing a few people at first Nil Einne (talk) 08:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Re:Doctors severed hand.jpg
Although it was a while back, I just realised you helped secure the remaining of the picture Doctors severed hand.jpg that i had added, by adding a Fair Use Rationale. So I was just wanting to say thankyou.
Badwolftv (talk) 17:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Doctor Who fandom help
Hey, I noticed you contributed to the Doctor Who fandom article. I was wondering, because of that, if you might be willing to help edit the page on Fan History about the Doctor Who fandom? Fan History's entry is intended to be a bit more comprehensive and all encompassing as Fan History is a wiki dedicated to documenting and preserving as much fandom history as it can. The Doctor Who article could really use some one familiar with wiki editing and Doctor Who fandom knowledge to make it better. :) If you can help, it would very much be appreciated. --FanHistory (talk) 22:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)